North Korean jets make special flights to pick up war veterans: State media



Analysis North Korean jets make special flights to pick up war veterans: State media Cross-country trips absent from flight trackers but typical of those that occur around major events in Pyongyang Colin Zwirko July 27, 2022 SHARE COPY LINK FACEBOOK X LINKEDIN MASTODON An Air Koryo Tu-134 with tail number P-813 visible at the rear, seen before takeoff in the afternoon on an unspecified date at Samjiyon Airport \| Image: KCTV (July 27, 2022) Two North Korean passenger jets made relatively rare trips to the country’s northeast in recent days to pick up participants for a war veterans conference, according to NK Pro analysis of state media imagery. Korean Central Television (KCTV) aired footage Wednesday showing two Air Koryo planes — a Tupolev-134 and Tupolev-154 — taking trips to Samjiyon Airport and Orang Airport (near Chongjin) and returning to Pyongyang International Airport with the elderly veterans. The flights did not appear in commercial flight tracking services or Planet Labs satellite imagery of the airports in question, so it is difficult Read More © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk Group. LATEST ANALYSIS 01Why a reported rise in North Korean wages won’t do much to improve welfare 02Top North Korean officials get bodyguards in likely security and status upgrade 03How Trump could reshape US strategy for countering North Korean cyber threats 04North Korea reveals new vertical take-off drones amid ‘modern warfare’ push 05How long-range strikes on Russia could impact North Korean troop deployments 06How North Korean hackers and IT workers collude to cause chaos 07What pro-Trump think tanks reveal about his likely North Korea policy priorities 08Yoon bet on US to deter North Korea. Now he faces an alliance skeptic in Trump.

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North Korean jets make special flights to pick up war veterans: State media

Cross-country trips absent from flight trackers but typical of those that occur around major events in Pyongyang

Colin Zwirko July 27, 2022

North Korean jets make special flights to pick up war veterans: State media

An Air Koryo Tu-134 with tail number P-813 visible at the rear, seen before takeoff in the afternoon on an unspecified date at Samjiyon Airport | Image: KCTV (July 27, 2022)

Two North Korean passenger jets made relatively rare trips to the country’s northeast in recent days to pick up participants for a war veterans conference, according to NK Pro analysis of state media imagery.

Korean Central Television (KCTV) aired footage Wednesday showing two Air Koryo planes — a Tupolev-134 and Tupolev-154 — taking trips to Samjiyon Airport and Orang Airport (near Chongjin) and returning to Pyongyang International Airport with the elderly veterans.

The flights did not appear in commercial flight tracking services or Planet Labs satellite imagery of the airports in question, so it is difficult

North Korean jets make special flights to pick up war veterans: State media

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